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Providing
Inspiration
ChicagoStyle Weddings strives to inspire couples in the wedding planning process through visually-driven,
engaging editorial material and fully developed resource guides providing tips, trends and the “Best of the Best”
vendors in Chicagoland.

Simply stated, we use our print and digital expertise to build
relationships. Whether we’re connecting a vendor to a
bride, engaging with couples ourselves, or creating a new
partnership between vendors, we do our best to make
strong, lasting connections to support our clients and
consumers at every turn.
Once upon a time, we were a young magazine called
Chicago Weddingpages. We’ve had more than 25 years of
learning and growth since inception and you’d be amazed
at the changes.
ChicagoStyle Weddings is no longer just a magazine,
it’s an award-winning, multi-platform, print-meets-digital
search engine dedicated to helping newly engaged
couples find their inspiration and build relationships with
local vendors.
We pride ourselves on being the ultimate Chicago
wedding planning resource, connecting couples to the
vendors and services they need to create the wedding of
their dreams.
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CHICAGOSTYLE WEDDINGS HELPS BUILD SOLID,
LASTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CLIENTS AND COUPLES.

With an annual print circulation of over 100,000 copies and over 18,000 unique visitors to our website per month, ChicagoStyle Weddings
provides your business with maximum exposure amongst discriminating local brides and grooms.

LOCAL BEAUTIFUL & PLANNING

MAGAZINE PHOTOSHOOTS PORTABLE TOOLS

LOCAL SEARCH WEBSITE FAVORABLE SEO CALENDAR OF

ENGINE POSITIONS EVENTS

DIRECT INFORMATION
BLAST EMAILS LEAD LISTS
MARKETING CAPTURE

SOCIAL
FACEBOOK TWITTER PINTEREST MEDIA AND
BLOG

We’ve done our research, and we know that couples are using several media outlets to find products and services. ChicagoStyle Weddings
offers a fully integrated marketing program that targets couples in five different ways to drive more business to you:

• Magazine, a beautiful and portable resource
designed to assist in planning the perfect wedding
• Website, acts as a search engine driving traffic to
our clients’ profiles and websites
• Direct Marketing, tools to communicate your
products and services directly to the newly
engaged couple
• Social Media, helping us connect to brides and
grooms through the media they consume most
often
• Blog, developing stories featuring vendors, events,
wedding culture, and ideas to draw in the
trendsetting couple

ChicagoStyle Weddings is a multi-platform brand

that strives to reach and engage our couples
to better serve their local wedding needs.
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MAGAZINE
ChicagoStyle Weddings magazine is the largest, longest running and
most comprehensive bridal publication in Chicago. We have an
impeccable reputation amongst both advertisers and newly engaged
Chicagoland couples.
DIRECT MARKETING
ChicagoStyle Weddings continues to lead the Chicagoland market -
place in couples name capture both electronically and through our
magazine. We offer two ways for you to put your name directly in front
of couples during their wedding planning process:

We consistently offer more local content than any other Chicago bridal • LEAD LIST with bride’s name, address, wedding date, and
publication with our must-read editorial, Real ChicagoStyle Weddings, phone number for you to contact through mailers and
beautiful local photo features, and comprehensive vendor resource postcards.
guides. Our magazine is used as a resource and planning tool
• EMAIL DATABASE of newly engaged brides that you can send
throughout the entire engagement process. There is always a reason
an email to through ChicagoStyleWeddings.com
for the bride-to-be to come back to the magazine as a reference to
help her continue with her planning.
BLOG AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Research has shown brides shop by category, so we made it easy for
It used to be that a business without a website was irrelevant. Now the
them! By breaking advertisements and editorial into categories, brides
web is shifting and with the rise of social media, a business without a
can easily navigate through vendors and information to find just what
social presence is becoming irrelevant. We know social media can be
they need, when they need it.
complicated and time consuming. So, let us use our various platforms

WEBSITE to promote your business.

Like our magazine, our website is completely local. Chicago vendors
for Chicago couples. The site works in conjunction with the magazine
to offer engaged couples complete editorial content, planning tools and
local real wedding features, giving ChicagoStyleWeddings.com an
edge over competitors who are solely web-based.
Couples are directed to the website from our magazine, blast emails
and search engines. We invite them to visit our site, to enter contests,
check out our advertisers, read exciting articles and view our digital
magazine. We have over 18,000 unique visitors on the site per month.
Our advertisers enjoy the perk of being considered first and foremost
for all social media and blog posts. We position our clients as experts
in the field, not just salespeople. We offer couples tips and planning
ideas they need to know, directly from our talented vendors.
We use cross-platform promotion to create optimal ranks on search
engines and to develop a highly engaged following of dedicated brides,
grooms and wedding professionals.

In addition to our favorable SEO positions, our website functions as a

search engine for couples in and of itself. Brides and grooms can use
our interactive tools to search by location, view all vendors in a given
category, and view full profiles and virtual tours.
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DESIGN
As a visual medium, we only use the best graphics, photos and audience. We organize all our content by category, so couples can

advertisements on our pages. Our high-resolution images stand out find what they need quickly and effortlessly.

from our pages and take the already strong editorial to a whole new
Here are a few more reasons why couples love us:
level. They say a picture is worth a thousand words…and we have over
500 pages of them. • ChicagoStyle Weddings magazine contains more local content
than any other competing Chicagoland bridal publication
Our creative team goes through every page, mapping out ad
placements, editorial blocks and ensuring that everything is clear, • Best Ad-to-Edit Ratio amongst local bridal magazines in the

legible, and coherent. We take care to present ourselves well, so our marketplace. We offer far more edit than ad! Sixty percent of

clients have the best opportunity possible to present themselves well.
EDITORIAL
This is what we’re known for – what we do best. We compile all the
trends of the upcoming year with time-tested planning tools to help
engaged couples create the wedding of their dreams. We talk to our
audience to find out what they want to see, then we take that to the
our content is editorial material, ensuring the bride will spend
time on the page reading and absorbing advertisements.
• Ads are placed into categories, making it easy for the engaged
couple to locate your business and see your offerings.
No frustrating page flipping required!
We have a wide variety of features within our pages and we want to

experts to create useful, honest articles reflecting the needs of our show them off! Take a peek at our editorial calendar for details.
 IN A RECENT SURVEY, WE OFFER MORE
83% OF BRIDES LOCAL CONTENT THAN
POLLED SAID THEY ANY OTHER
STILL USE BRIDAL CHICAGO BRIDAL
MAGAZINES PUBLICATION
LESS THAN 1% OF
THE CHICAGOLAND
POPULATION IS ENGAGED
AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
BEST WE TARGET ALL WE REACH 7.4 OUT
AD-TO-EDIT OF THEM OF EVERY 10 NEWLY
RATIO, ENGAGED CHICAGOLAND
60% EDIT COUPLES
40% AD

Where You Need Us

Though we’re an annual publication, we change the cover
six times per year to keep it fresh and available on all DEMOGRAPHIC
major newsstands. We consistently outsell our PROFILE
competition.
AVERAGE
AGE
DISTRIBUTION AVERAGE
BRIDE 28
2,000 newsstands throughout Chicagoland GROOM 30 HOUSEHOLD
Top wedding retailers INCOME
Local bridal shows and events $103,500
Featured advertisers’ locations
READERSHIP
FEMALE 91%
MALE 9% GEOGRAPHY
OF READERS
CITY 59%
SUBURBS 41%

MAGAZINE & WEBSITE

P 847 584 2626 • F 847 584 2660

1008 Bonaventure Drive • Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-3277
CHICAGOSTYLEWEDDINGS.COM • chicagostyleweddings.blogspot.com

Sources: CMO Inc. • ChicagoStyle Weddings’ Reader Surveys • Google Analytics

Cover Photography: From left to right - Top: Studio ThisIs, Dennis Lee
Photography, Sonya Martin Photography; Center: Dennis Lee Photography,
Melissa Diep Photography; Bottom: Furla Photography & Video, Carasco
Photography, Edward Fox Photography

Back Cover Photography: From left to right - Top: Robyn Rachel

Photography, Rick Aguilar Studios, Wasio Photography; Center: Salvatore
Cincotta Photography, Glen Abog Photography; Center Top Right:
Orange 2 Photography; Bottom: Jenny Taylor Photography, Studio ThisIs

MAGAZINE & WEBSITE

1008 Bonaventure Drive • Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-3277 • P 847 584 2626 • F 847 584 2660
CHICAGOSTYLEWEDDINGS.COM • chicagostyleweddings.blogspot.com